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Wednesday, May 4, 2011

When Henry's teacher asked me to bring Sombrero cookies to help celebrate Cinco de Mayo, I was a little hesitant. This week is not only Teacher Appreciation Week, but Grant's class is learning about Japan {which means I will be making Candy Sushi} and Henry has an award ceremony on Thursday {he got highest GPA in his class for the year!}. I knew I had a busy week ahead of me, but Henry's teacher said she thought the Sombrero Cookies would be really easy to make so I agreed to give them a try:)

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I found the directions on the Family Fun website, bought all the supplies, and then got busy assembling some fun {edible} Sombreros for Henry's class:)

Ingredients:

store bought sugar cookies

a can of white icing

gum drops

nonpareils or sprinkles

Start by putting about half a can of store bought icing into a ziploc bag. Then cut off a tiny piece of one corner to make squeezing the icing onto the cookie easy.

Using your homemade icing bag, squeeze a small bead of icing all the way around the cookie. It doesn't have to be perfect, once it is covered in sprinkles no one will even notice:)

Pour your nonpareils into a shallow dish and then place the iced cookie face down in the plate of nonpareils.

Turn them back over and add a drop of icing in the center of the cookie.

Add a gum drop to the icing then sprinkle on a few extra nonpareils to cover any extra icing.

Once you get your first cookie made and get a feel for it, these are SUPER easy to make assembly line style and the kiddos can even help by sticking on the gum drop!

I hope these Sombrero Cookies help make your Cinco de Mayo a little more fun and a lot sweeter!

I'll have to remember these. Jamison is SO excited about Cinco de Mayo and she loves having Mexican night...these would be great to make. Thanks for sharing. I'm sure we'll be seeing a lot of cookies on here :)

These are adorable!! I've never ever done anything special for Cinco de Mayo, but maybe next year I'll try out these cookies! FYI I gave you a quick shout out here: http://figgsandsuch.wordpress.com/2011/05/05/cinco-de-mayo-treat/

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So cute! My daughter's preschool is taking their "passports" around the world the next couple of weeks and tomorrow they are "going" to Mexico. We just finished making these and I blogged about it, giving a link back to you. We ended up using cookies from Mexico and using larger gumdrops for an "authentic" sombrero look. Thanks so much, here's the link to our first attempt:

What a cleaver idea !I am having a back yard Mexican Fiesta party for our church senior group and these will be perfect for a light dessert.Thank you for sharing! I found this on pinterest by the way.Joy! Debbie

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